<p>Soni Sori, a tribal teacher from Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, was arrested from Katwaria Sarai area. <br /><br />Soni, who is in her 30s, was later brought before a court which sent her to judicial custody for a day. <br /><br />Human right activist and People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) general secretary, Kavita Shrivastava, however, condemned the arrest saying the cases against Sori are fabricated. <br /><br />"The cases framed against her are fabricated and her arrest is illegal. She is being falsely implicated and it's a complete violation of human rights," said Shrivastava whose house in Jaipur was raided by Chhattisgarh Police Monday in pursuit of Sori. <br /><br />Shrivastava, who broke down in a press conference here, charged the government of "silencing the dissent in the country". <br /><br />"The raid at my house was an act of collusion between Rajasthan and Chattisgarh governments which want to silence their critics. They searched my house with a warrant in which no IPC section was mentioned," she added. <br /><br />Chhattisgarh Police, in July, filed a case against Sori for allegedly collecting Rs.15 lakh from a contractor of the Essar group. <br /><br />Following the registration of the case, police picked up her nephew Lingaram Kodopi in Chhattisgarh accusing him of being a Maoist sympathiser. He alleged that police had implicated him. <br /><br />In 2010, Chhattisgarh Police booked Sori in a case related to an attack on Congress leader Avdesh Gautam's house.<br /><br />There are five different cases registered against Sori in Chhattisgarh under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, police said. <br /><br />Sori, who left her studies in a medical college for a government job at Sameli village as warden of a residential school for girls, later went into hiding.<br /><br />An Essar group general manager D.V.C.S. Verma was arrested Sep 27 from Raipur for his alleged role in paying "protection money" to the Maoists to help the company reopen a 267-km iron ore slurry supply pipeline in Dantewada district.<br /><br />His arrest followed questioning of Essar contractor B.K. Lala, who was caught while handing over Rs.15 lakh.</p>
<p>Soni Sori, a tribal teacher from Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, was arrested from Katwaria Sarai area. <br /><br />Soni, who is in her 30s, was later brought before a court which sent her to judicial custody for a day. <br /><br />Human right activist and People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) general secretary, Kavita Shrivastava, however, condemned the arrest saying the cases against Sori are fabricated. <br /><br />"The cases framed against her are fabricated and her arrest is illegal. She is being falsely implicated and it's a complete violation of human rights," said Shrivastava whose house in Jaipur was raided by Chhattisgarh Police Monday in pursuit of Sori. <br /><br />Shrivastava, who broke down in a press conference here, charged the government of "silencing the dissent in the country". <br /><br />"The raid at my house was an act of collusion between Rajasthan and Chattisgarh governments which want to silence their critics. They searched my house with a warrant in which no IPC section was mentioned," she added. <br /><br />Chhattisgarh Police, in July, filed a case against Sori for allegedly collecting Rs.15 lakh from a contractor of the Essar group. <br /><br />Following the registration of the case, police picked up her nephew Lingaram Kodopi in Chhattisgarh accusing him of being a Maoist sympathiser. He alleged that police had implicated him. <br /><br />In 2010, Chhattisgarh Police booked Sori in a case related to an attack on Congress leader Avdesh Gautam's house.<br /><br />There are five different cases registered against Sori in Chhattisgarh under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, police said. <br /><br />Sori, who left her studies in a medical college for a government job at Sameli village as warden of a residential school for girls, later went into hiding.<br /><br />An Essar group general manager D.V.C.S. Verma was arrested Sep 27 from Raipur for his alleged role in paying "protection money" to the Maoists to help the company reopen a 267-km iron ore slurry supply pipeline in Dantewada district.<br /><br />His arrest followed questioning of Essar contractor B.K. Lala, who was caught while handing over Rs.15 lakh.</p>